The Aftermath [ CLOSED RP ]
@edd-the-cinnamonroll
It had just been one of those nights where the three had just hung around watching a movie with one another. Edd, Tom and Matt had currently been viewing a horror classic together making dumb jokes during it.
Edd on the other side hadn’t really been paying attention to the film and more to his friends as he felt weird lately which he couldn’t tell from what was causing it and these two had been the ones to distract him from going deep into thought.
Tom and Matt seemed to be alright seeing as they were laughing loudly. Tom took a chance to glance at Edd to see him laughing along with them, although his laugh felt kind of forced to him. Maybe he was just tired is all. It was 2 AM after all. “Matt, you’re dropping all the popcorn.” He said to the taller clumsy male making him look down at the floor letting out an ‘awh’ as he realized that it was all over the carpet.
“Sorry Edd.” Matt spoke out apologizing to the shorter one next to his left. Getting no response from the male, both Tom and Matt turned their heads to him.
“Edd?” Tom asked hoping to get his focus.
Edd had been somewhat half way spaced out at the time. He began to think more and more. These thoughts becoming really negative and somewhat unpleasant.
He would turn his attention to the past quite often. He’d think over about when Tord came back, the times he spent with him and the times in between. Sometimes he remembered something good but he began to look behind the scenes in his life. Some of the times he made small mistakes.
The more he dwelled on it the worse he thought, and began to think of himself. He did not know how he was supposed to cope with this or what it was. Why he was having these thoughts. They hurt, they were unpleasant. He wished they would stop but at the same time, he felt it was the only reason to justify his sadness since he did not know where to pin point it.
He still liked himself though, but noticed himself slowly slipping. The thought began to effect his mood and reactions. Very mildly though. It was not something he thought was concerning despite the worsening condition.
At the 2nd mention of his name, Edds bright green eyes widened. He looked up and sat up straight staring at Tom and Edd as if he were startled. Though the room was dimly lit only from the lights of the TV, he made out mildly concerned expressions upon their faces. Edd quickly smiled and relaxed his shoulders and face slightly to seem calm.
“Oh! Sorry, I was spaced out, whats up?” He asked. He did not really hear what just went on but had an idea.
Tom was worried. He couldn’t get the feeling out thinking something had been going on with Edd. All of this concern, he had no where to put it.
Matt on the other hand was relieved giving out a small sigh to guess for a second that Edd was angry at him about the pieces of popcorn spread all over the floor. “Hi Edd! Ahh..Apologies for the whole mess in your house now because of..Me.” Matt said with a frown.
“You alright Edd? Seemed kinda bummed about somethin’..Wanna talk about it?” Tom questioned the other. Unlike Matt, he was suspicious of the whole act. Just think about it for a second
Edd had been far more off than usual. Whether it was cooking in early mornings for his two roommates, (hell Tom has once caught him doing so saving the house from getting a fire) or the guy’s sleeping schedule was off.
Out of this whole group, Edd was the most stable, Matt had also been while Tom on the other hand has always been the opposite of it all but the two always somehow managed to make him grin about something tiny around here and made him feel better about himself.
"Oh, Don't worry about it, Matt." Edd assured the guilty ginger. In that moment as he patted Matts back, something weird happened.
It was like, he suddenly did not have control of his body. His arm quickly rose from Matts shoulder and his hand formed a fist. Before he knew it his fist nailed Matt in the face so hard, it shattered his jaw and blood spewed from Matts mouth and his face became swollen and purple as he fell onto the ground. Toms expression grew panicked and angered and Edd was in a state of shock----------------
but then, everything was fine. His hand was still on Matts shoulder and he was still fine, but Edd no longer was.
This was unlike any experience he ever had before. He felt sick, the scene was almost traumatizing. How could he ever do something like that, it was awful. He would never do something like that!! ... would he??
Edds bright green eyes became dull, he froze for a moment and his eyebrows curled together in both fear and sadness. He smiled and drew his hand from Matts shoulder.
"I'll be right back. I need to use the restroom." Edd said before he quickly got up and rushed to the bathroom.
